Criticality Safety Case Studies, Part 1

This is part four of a nine-part tutorial series exclusively available to 2020 ANS Winter Meeting attendees.

Examples where chemistry has unexpectedly impinged (or might have impinged) on criticality control are explored.

Case 1: How poor engineering altered the chemistry of a dissolver system and caused an unexpected criticality hazard… or how a lack of engineering know-how fooled the chemists.

Case 2: How a criticality safety improvement made things less safe as chemistry triumphed over physics.

Case 3: How chemistry fooled even the chemists.

Presenter

Howard Greenwood, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK